MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group) is an Audio/Video compression, storage, and transmission standard. It is commonly used for audio and video on web pages, embedded videos in software, VideoCD’s, DVD’s, and Digital television. While MPEG players are commonly available and bundled with many operating systems and off the shelf software, there is much less choice for encoders to produce these MPEGS. There are several commercial encoders available, and a few freeware versions. You will NOT find ANY mp3 (MPEG Layer 3) encoders on this web site due to licensing restrictions placed on mp3 encoders by the patent holders.

Final Cut Pro X is a follow-up to Final Cut Pro 7, software Apple released in 2009 as part of Final Cut Studio, which is new released with powerful new features like expanded ProRes codecs, improved speed/XML interchange/media management, etc and some time-saving improvements like automatic transfer, easy export, and so on. However, this new released FCP X can not import MPEG video format for editing!

After copying MPEG videos to Apple hard drive, just run the UFUSoft HD Video Converter for Mac as the MPEG Converter, and click the Add button to load .MPEG videos.

Step 2. Choose MOV for FCP X on Mac OS X.

Click the Format option and choose Final Cut Pro > Apple ProRes 422(LT)(*mov)/Apple ProRes 422(*mov) or HD Video > HD MOV Video (*.mov) as output video format. To get high quality video, you can adjust Profile Parameters by clicking Settings button and make sure the original option is used for the Bit rate option. The application will convert MPEG files to ProRes .mov or QuickTime .mov for FCP X on Mac.